On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:49:10AM -0600, Michael Friedhoff wrote: what is your ps outout supposed to tell us? > I am not positive that netfilter is the cause for > the memory loss, but it is the only purpose of the > machine. In the last 12 hours, the amout of > available memory has decreased by 1.5MB. I know > that isn't much, but since this is a production box, > I would rather not have to reboot it constantly. what amount of memory are you referring to? 'free' memory (as in the top program) will always be very low, since linux uses almost all free memory for caching/buffering. the output of /proc/slabinfo (|grep ip_conntrack) should be more useful to see if the conntrack hash is growing or not. > --Michael Friedhoff -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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